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The Geylang Bahru family murders occurred in Singapore on 6 January 1979. [1] All four children in the Tan family were found dead in their flat, at Block 58 Geylang Bahru. They were hacked, stabbed and slashed to death and their bodies were left piled on top of each other. The children ranged from 5 to 10 years of age at the time of death.
The parents must be older than 25 years old and at least 21 years older than the adoption child. Adoptive parent must not be more than 50 years older than the child. Parent should have sound mental health. The child must be under 21 years old and a Singapore resident. A foreign-born child may be adopted, but will need to get a Dependant's Pass ...
In June 2018, the Save The Children organisation's End of Childhood report ranked Singapore as the best country for children to grow up in. Its ranking methodology is based on eight indicators - under-five mortality rate, child stunting, out-of-school children and youth, child labour, child marriage, adolescent birth rate, child homicide rate ...
2 December 2024: The case of a 30-year-old woman found dead in a flat along Dover Road was classified as murder by the Singapore police. A 34-year-old man, suspected of being involved in the murder, left Singapore prior to the police receiving a call for assistance. The suspect and the victim were known to each other.
In July 2015, Singapore's national daily newspaper The Straits Times published a e-book titled Guilty As Charged: 25 Crimes That Have Shaken Singapore Since 1965, which included the Andrew Road triple murder case as one of the top 25 crimes that had shocked the nation since its independence in 1965. The book was a collaboration between the ...
On 21 January 2022, at a playground in Greenridge Crescent, located in Singapore's Upper Bukit Timah, 11-year-old twin brothers Ethan Yap E Chern (Chinese: 叶育成; pinyin: Yè Yùchéng) and Aston Yap Kai Shern (Chinese: 叶凯胜; pinyin: Yè Kǎishèng), who were both diagnosed with autism, were murdered by their 48-year-old father Xavier Yap Jung Houn (Chinese: 叶俊宏; pinyin: Yè ...
The killing of Ayeesha, together with several other high-profile cases of children who died from child abuse, including the 2014 Chin Swee Road child death, the 2016 Toa Payoh child abuse case and the 2020 Jurong child killing, brought widespread attention to the phenomenon of child abuse in Singapore, and it prompted the government to impose ...
Having heard about the higher income she could get from jobs in Singapore, Piang prepared to go there so that she could provide a better life for her son and family. She was said to have planned to work there as a domestic maid for two to three years, as she wanted to buy a plot of land to build a house for herself and her son in Kalay Township ...